Ah in the Videos section. I now see you mentioned that in your message above, but I must have assumed you meant in the settings, I forgot the Videos main menu item even existed.
Also interestingly I use my TV’s remote control to control the interface. I see that the “context menu” button (OPTION button on my remote) works if the item you have selected has a context menu, but if the item does not have a context menu, then the TV remote will show some TV options popup overlay - nothing to do with Kodi. This really confused me because I assumed the OPTION button actually did nothing for Kodi, when in actual fact it does if you happen to have the focus on an item that has a context menu. I only worked this out just then in frustration when I still couldn’t see your “change content” menu item (on my interface it’s “set content”). A trap for young players.
I don’t understand how you could have this behavior as you describe it. Kodi does not send any kind of messaging back to CEC to allow this kind of behavior. In a nutshell your TV will forward some buttons to Kodi determined by what kind of device it is. Kodi has a thing called a keymap that determines what happens when it sees a particular button pressed on any given window.
The only thing I can think of would be that perhaps your hitting some key that is bringing up an overlay on the TV and when that overlay is active the commands are often then sent to the TV instead of being forwarded over CEC.
It is common with TV remotes that they don’t forward a “menu” button and this can normally be overcome by mapping that function to another key that it does forward such as the rewind key. You can find information about how this works on Kodi’s wiki of the subject.
Just tested again to make sure I wasn’t crazy. On some screens it will bring up the panasonic (my TV) menu, some screens it will do nothing, and some screens it will bring up the context menu. shrug
Can take a video of it if you want.
Interesting. I don’t think a video of it would bring me any closer to understanding how exactly this would be happening. Kodi does not send any information back to the TV regarding what menu is, or is not available. The level of communication over CEC is actually quite basic.
Interestingly I can’t reproduce it now. I did just before i sent my previous message, but I can’t remember which screen I was on. Tried on many different screens just now and it either does nothing or brings up the Kodi context menu.
In any case you were right about the path substitution. I’m not sure if it’s the culprit, but Empire now has duplicates for every single episode, and I have noticed that a bunch of my other shows have this too. I tried to edit the SQL DB directly to see what was going on - noticed that I now seem to have up to 3 paths per show - the old IP, the new IP, and the direct USB mount from the Vero. Some shows only show 1 ep per ep, some 2, and one that I tried to manually edit to test (ie i deleted the episode row directly out of the database for the bad paths) now has 3! argh. I think i’ll just start again fresh.
Any advice on how to clear my DB without factory resetting - I don’t want to have to re-install the DB, but do want to clear any data about my show/movie info and any source info so I can start fresh with 1 source
Remember - I use MySQL installed on the Vero4k as my DB, I assume there’s an equivalent in the SQL structure? I have 2 (relevant) databases, called MyVideos107 and MyVideos116, do I just rename both of these?
Path substitution does not work like that. If you have these duplicates then it is because you added a source with your new IP and also added a source with a direct USB mount. When you path substitute you don’t change your sources or anything other than the advancedsetting.xml. There is also no need to start over again. All you need to do is remove all sources but from one location, and then run a clean library. The duplicates will be removed.